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Juan Gabriel Vasquezbooks include the 2014 International IMPAC Dublin award winner and national bestseller, The Sound of Things Falling, as well as the award-winning The Informers and The Secret History of Costaguana.

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Live-away Dads

Staying a Part of Your Children’s Lives When They Aren’t a Part of Your Home

Format

Paperback

Price

$17.00

Paperback

ISBN 9780140272802

272 Pages

1 Mar 1999

Penguin Books

Adult

Overview

Written by a veteran social worker, therapist, and men’s counselor who has spent many years as a live-away dad himself, Live-Away Dads is a practical and encouraging guide for fathers who want to make the best of their relationships with their children after a divorce or breakup.

From his personal and professional experience, especially his years as a custody advisor to the Illinois courts, William C. Klatte is highly attuned to the special struggle of non-custodial fathers. He shows how emotions?especially anger, depression, and feelings of powerlessness?often control men’s behavior with former partners and others, and he guides fathers in acknowledging and expressing anger more effectively. With guidance on dealing with the courts, working out visitation, communicating with the children’s mother, creating a child-friendly home, and much more, Klatte helps live-away dads through the toughest challenges of single parenting. Practical and inspiring, Live-Away Dads will indelibly change for the better the way we approach parenting after divorce.

Table of Contents

II. Getting Along with Your Children’s Mother and Others4. Succeeding with Your Children’s Mother and Her New Partner5. Money6. Is My Children’s Mother Harming Our Kids?7. Communicating with Your New Partner and Others

III. Navigating the Court System8. Parents Versus Courts9. Insider’s Report: What I Looked for as a Family Court Social Worker10. How to Succeed in Parenting-Time (Visitation) Mediation